Mike Rice, Jr.

Rutgers University's Board of Governors met behind closed doors Friday amid the latest scandal to hit the sports program the school has been trying to build up.

Rutgers President Robert Barchi said the meeting, which dealt with the university's athletics program, covered legal issues and that the board "an extensive and robust conversation, that they were fully briefed."

Football coach Kyle Flood has kicked six players off the team after their arrests this month on charges that include armed robbery and home-invasion burglary and rioting. One of the former players was also charged in two home-invasion robberies.

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